How foolish you are, grasping the letterof the text and ignoring its intention!

and many Buddhists have boxed themselves into a narrow furrow on account of their timidity in looking for truth where it is to be found, but instead looking only for "Buddhist truth" .... and soon they are fighting among themselves, because scorpions in boxes have no choice but to fight among themselves.

it is from an altogether different tradition. some who call themselves Buddhist will go "oh pshaw, that isn't MY BOX .... while other Buddhists might go ... hmmm .... wonder if there;s anything to learn from this. ... & those are 2 very different Buddhists there.

one is looking for features on the box wall, the other is poking a head out of the box and looking around.

In the invisible realm of the heavens,There is a Buddha who skillfully uses falsehoods, Guiding sentient beings toward relative truth.Little time have they to realize ultimate truth.O Retchung, abandon concepts. (milarepa)

and who would presume that there is a Buddhist heaven, boxed in, with gates and fences... its prescribed territory ..... and there's a Muslim heaven, with its own guards and gates and fencing, and over there, is the Hindu heaven, with its uniformed guards ...etc etc ....

and Buddhists, box themselves into their self imposed cultural matrix. they talk big on mind, but that mind is self limited.

why.

and why even argue about "God", when the word itself, means the very motivation to comprehend .....

robaire wrote: How foolish you are, grasping the letterof the text and ignoring its intention!

Why are are you quoting my signature? This has nothing to do with this topic at all.

and many Buddhists have boxed themselves into a narrow furrow on account of their timidity in looking for truth where it is to be found, but instead looking only for "Buddhist truth" .... and soon they are fighting among themselves, because scorpions in boxes have no choice but to fight among themselves.

and Buddhists, box themselves into their self imposed cultural matrix. they talk big on mind, but that mind is self limited.

And where is this coming from?

How foolish you are, grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention! - Vasubandhu